Keith Richards "I snorted my father"
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I don't think there's a graemlin for this.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=...e=entertainmentKeith Richards: `I Snorted My Father'Tuesday, April 3, 2007(04-03) 11:59 PDT LONDON, United Kingdom (AP)Keith Richards has acknowledged consuming a raft of illegal substances in his time, but this may top them all.In comments published Tuesday, the 63-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist said he had snorted his father's ashes mixed with cocaine."The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," Richards was quoted as saying by British music magazine NME."He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared," he said. "... It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive."Richards' father, Bert, died in 2002, at 84.Richards, one of rock's legendary wild men, told the magazine that his survival was the result of luck, and advised young musicians against trying to emulate him."I did it because that was the way I did it. Now people think it's a way of life," he was quoted as saying."I've no pretensions about immortality," he added. "I'm the same as everyone ... just kind of lucky."I was No. 1 on the `who's likely to die' list for 10 years. I mean, I was really disappointed when I fell off the list," Richards said.
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ooookaaaaayyy.
i mean if this happened in the 70's or 80's, i'd understand a little more, but his father died in 02.
dude, groww the fuck up.
rock stars are from mars.
once again confirming that by taking the road of excess
the results are a severely creased face and gained entrance to the utopic prardise that which is filled wisdom and freedom from "reality"
that said... there is some strange symbolism at work here
i thought keasey was your idol.
Now was this around the same time he fell out of the tree?[/b]
naw i was directing that to kala, hence the misspelling. kitchen knight will remember.
I knew it was too good to be true.
Thanks Kurt Loder:
Keith Richards Explains: Snorting-Dad's-Ashes Story Was 'Lost In The Usual Slanting'Guitarist says father's ashes actually fertilized oak tree ??? and he'd only take cocaine again if 'I wished to commit suicide.'
By Kurt Loder
No doubt you've seen the Keith Richards story that exploded across the media on Tuesday ??? the one where the Rolling Stones guitarist told Britain's New Musical Express that after the death and cremation of his father, Bert, in 2002, he mixed his dad's ashes with some cocaine and snorted them up.
Clearly, this is one of the all-time great rock and roll stories. Unfortunately, it's not true.
It seems to have been either a joke ??? one that sailed right over the NME interviewer's head ??? or a misunderstanding of Richards' famously hard-to-parse verbal style.
In any event, this dodgy quote was picked up by a horde of newspapers, wire services and TV and online outlets on both sides of the Atlantic, among them Reuters, Forbes, Google, Breitbart and the Drudge Report. And evidently, none of them attempted to confirm the story with a Richards representative.
MTV News took the novel step of contacting Richards' manager, who responded with what sounded like a sigh, but was in fact an e-mail. The dad-snorting story, she explained, was, quote, "said in jest ... [i] can't believe anyone took [it] seriously."
And now, this just in from Keith Richards himself, who says, "The complete story is lost in the usual slanting." As for the actual use to which his father's ashes were put, he said, "The truth of the matter is that I planted a sturdy English Oak. I took the ... ashes [and sprinkled them beneath the tree], and he is now growing oak trees and he would love me for it!"
As for the ashes-and-cocaine-snorting story he told to the NME, Richards said, "I was trying to say how tight Bert and I were ??? that tight!
"I wouldn't take cocaine at this point in my life," he added, "unless I wished to commit suicide."
[This story was originally published at 7:38 pm E.T. on 04.03.2007]